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[edit] Shannon the Scavenger
Before we begin, let us concern ourselves with the famous tale of a more famous beast, one that defies every physical law which governs the quintessential nature of the Universe. From the primitive laws of Newtonian Mechanics to the intricacies of Quantum Theory, this animal defies the logic which we have built over the years.
His name is Shannon the Scavenger
[edit] Theories on his Conception
It is definitely not clear where he was conceived. Some claim that the earth vomited out onto the Garden of Eden many eons ago - a creature conceived in the belly of the planet one may say. This is, however, only speculation of his true origins.
Others claim that in the beginning after light was created, a photon, just days after its creation, gained consiousness and transformed itself into its physical manifestation - which is Shannon the Scavenger. Yet others proclaim that he was a by-product of the wrath of a strange nation living in the Andromeda Galaxy. Called the "Vengers", these humanoid creatures were disgusted with the filth they themselves concocted on their planet. They took a small animal and fed it a dead body, and over time this animal became Shannon the Scavenger. The theory goes on to describe how the Scavenger ("Sca" + "venger" = cleaner of the people) took on its wave function and became a quark then traveled 2.4 million light years in a fraction of a second to arrive at planet earth. This theory is however not famous with Scientists because it fails to explain many other strange characteristics of this scavenger.
[edit] His True Conception
The most common misconception about Shannon the Scavenger is that he is about half a million years old which is far from the true value of about the same age as the planet itself. Around 5 Billion years ago, after the Creation of the Earth and its primitive life forms took a hold of the planet, somewhere deep in the lush gardens of Ancient Babylon the mouth of the earth spewed out a creature. This Creature was conceived in the belly of the earth and its main function was the keeper and cleaner of the earth. The story goes to say that after vomiting out this creature, the earth uttered these words:
"Out of my belly thou art conceived, and on mine surface thou shall dwell; not as an inhabitant, but as the purger of my facade. Dead bodies thou shalt consume, decaying matter on which thou shalt feed upon, thou shall keep my skin clean, and purify it of dead objects thou shall do. Thou shall stay in that way until the end of time. The Gracious Lord has provided you with untold abilities with which you shall perform these duties and by the Grace of The Creator, thou shall fulfill your duties as a Scavenging Beast. I hereby declare you Shannon the Scavenger"
After these things came to pass, Shannon the Scavenger grew into a mighty beast.
[edit] Main Features
Shannon the scavenger is no ordinary scavenger such as the seagull, the pigeon, Androu, the squirrel and, more recently, the Shoe, the sandal, the bed, the boot, and an elusive other creature called "Scarborough". {‘Scarborough’ is allegedly the instrument used by Androu to convey the stories of Shannon the Scavenger. Scarborough has since then lost his ink and has been scavenging around in many corners of the universe looking for anything to eat. There is speculation that he has joined a rebellion with the Renegade Shoes of North America in an attempt to bring down what the group calls the “Capitalist Curtain”. The group, headed by worn-out shoes, seeks an end to “capitalist dictatorial nations” and to establish a “shoeocracy”, where shoes are glorified and sandals and beds are tortured and gassed (more on this later)}
Shannon has the unique ability to defy every known law of the physical universe. Indeed, if all his powers were examined, the laws of nature can be deduced by merely taking the inverse of each characteristic. According to a famous teller of his tales, perhaps the most famous, this scavenger has an infinite number of neurons. It is speculated that inside his skull, the space time continuum is , thereby creating an infinite amount of universes in which knowledge can be stored. His neurons, according to another elusive creature called “Mina” (who is smaller than all his constituting quarks), Shannon the scavenger has neurons that are about 1000 kilometers wide and 10,000 km long, with a width of about 999 meters. Mina has been very valuable in the quest to learn more about Shannon because he is the smallest creature/particle in the universe. At times, Mina even mistakenly takes on his wave function because of his miniscule size. Mina is so small that if you determine the diameter of the quark that he is composed of, it is many times larger than his actual diameter, which approches negative length. At one point, he was kidnapped by a pair of abandonned sandals in the so called Sandaliamina Hostage Incident [more about that later]. He makes a characteristic buzzing sound whenever he flies - "buzz".
Shannon, among other things, can create light, energy, life, mass, matter, and electricity from a vacuum. Some scientists speculate that he takes advantage of quantum fluctuations in the vacuum but, as with all other information about this elusive creature, nothing is certain.
[edit] Scarborough
Scarborough is probably the most famous pen which staunchly declares that It was the instrument used to pen the great stories of Shannon the Scavenger.
Scarborough is one of many clones produced by a local High School in a suburb of the northern nation of Canada. Being one of thousands of look alikes, Scarborough was a very sad pen, for he knew his fate would be the same as that of all other pens, certain doom and destruction. After Androu took a hold of this pen, Androu penned the long tales of the Great Shannon the Scavenger. The pen went on to share international fame with his bearer, Androu and all the pens of the Northern Hemisphere referred to Androu eventually as "The Pen-bearer". All was going well for Scarborough until the fateful day of his ink running out. Androu, being finished with the pen, reportedly tortured him and threw him into the bowels of the deep. Scarborough, however, did not cease to exist.
Scarobough then reportedly went and joined a terrorist faction group called "The Renegade Shoes of North America" (RSONA) headed by its chief in staff and warlord - NaA - In an attempt to destroy the Capitalist Curtain, this organization has had numerous attempts for a coup d'etat of the Mike Harris Administratioin, the President of the Capitalist Party of North America. All attempts have thus far failed. The Organization is allegedly based in Ellesmere Island in an underground establishment. Rare photographs have been taken of this mysterious site, which is located somewhere near a glacier and a huge rock in the shape of a shoe.
These shoes, in addition to wanting complete supreme military, political, and social power over the world, claims that they are an abused species. The claim that like humans, they have soles and the ability to think, reason, and use logic. They are staunch supports of the final solution to humans, sandals, boots, and other unpure shoe species.
[edit] The Shoes
Diverse in shape, form, niches and lifestyles, shoes have a worldwide distribution and widely ranging personalities, from cunnning sneakers, conceited dress shoes, athletic running shoes stern, agressive boots (although some taxonimists classify boots as a separate outgroup) to easy-going house slippers.
[edit] History
It is uncertain when the ancestral shoe evolved and diverged from the more ancient sandal lineage, although early archaelogists suggests mocassins as the most likely outgroup. From an early time onward, shoes begin to displace sandals in many areas, leading to backlash and resentment among the indigenous sandals, who claimed the newcomers were impure, inferior creatures. The negative shoe-sandal relations that have not ceased to this day is thought to have stemmed from these early conflicts, although more recent events have also added fuel to the fire.
[edit] The Beds
The beds, large and bulky are typically sedentary creatures, though they can occasionally lash out in anger and thrash about their huge bodies when provoked Being slept on, punched and pouted on, cried on, and listening to their owners' lamentations and rants about life in general through the years have left a mark on the beds' psychology and worldview. Beds are generally cynical creatures, though none too bright and yet are clumsy and do not like social contact too often.
The Beds, like the Sandals, shoes, and boots, are divided into many waring factions which quite naturally despise each other. Their organization is very poor, and small civil disputes usually erupt into civil bed wars, where beds of the same kind kill one another in bloody conflicts. Left alone they are sedentary creatures, but provoke them and they will lash out with a blood hurling scream and shout.
[edit] The Sandals
Probably the most suicidal species on the face of universe, this species has especially baffled scientists and logicians alike. With a strong tendency to commit suicide in small situation, these sandals will strap themselves with explosives and commit suicide, sometimes in public areas like malls or schools.
[edit] History
The Sandals claim a long heritage dating back to the dawn of human beings and the first civilizations. Historians tell us that the first sandals were made by the Egpytian civilization in an effort to protect there feet against the unforgiving heat of the desert sand. The sandals took the blunt of the head, and many claim that it was this heat that caused their neurons to malfunction in such a way that encourages suicide. The Southern Chinese and Asian civilizations also began wearing sandals at the same time to, unlike the Egyptians, protect their feet from monsoons and the wet seasons. Some speculate that it is the combination of harsh desert weather and wet warm weather that caused the chemical imbalance which now plagues many sandal populations across the planet.
The sandals then went through civilization with the humans. First the Egyptians and Chinese, then came along the Mesopotamians and the Babylonians who wore the sandals frequently during war. This prolonged exposure to war has lead some to postulate that it was this that caused their uber-cynicism about humans, shoes, and many other species. There first exposure to shoes came during the Roman empire, when Rome invaded the northern lands were shoes were preferred over sandals. There is considerable debate amongst scholars about who came first, the sandal or the shoe.
[edit] Politics
The sandals are a fragile species, a simple knock or kick will destroy them quite readily. Unlike the shoes, boots, or beds, sandals are very prone to any little knock and this is the reason, some psychoanalysist claim, that makes them suicidal. Being very politically and socially disorganized, there politics borders on the anarchic - making them very emotionally unstable creatures. Many factions of the sandals are quite organized, the biggest one being The Secret Sandal Society of South America (TSSSOSA) which was created in main opposition to the RSOSA led by warlord NaA. The TSSSOSA main base is located in the tropical Amazon jungles of Brazil, but no one is yet clear of their exact location. The group is an international organization with bases all across the world the biggest being in Warsaw, Frankfurt, Manchester, Calcutta, Shanghai, LA, Cairo, Algers, Java, and Perth. The FBI, CIA, and MI5 has has been trying to expose this organization to the world but has thus far failed to do so. The TSSSOSA use very unconvential ways of attacking main capitalist areas across the planet, there most famous being the "round-about suicide" technique where the sandals gather around the target, strap themselves together, and simultaneously blow themselves up, causing the complete destruction of the target and of the surrounding area.
The leader of the TSSSOSA is a feminist by the name of Sandy the Sandal. There are some reports that Sandy and NaA had a relationship sometime in the past and a young child was the product of this short marriage. There are many who claim to be this child, but the most convincing seems to come from a sock by the name of Stew the Sock. He claims that he clearly remembers living with NaA and Sandy before their divorce when after they report
[edit] Newts
The Newts are a very tribal species that roam the pacific and Indian oceans in search of victims and breeding grounds that cater to their whims. The exact place of origin is not known, but some speculate that it may be just off the coast of the Maldives.
There have been many historical references to the newts, the most famous being made by Sinbad the sailor while he cruised the vast Indian Ocean. It is written that Marco Polo also came across these creatures, but made a truce with the species by sacrificing half his crew. The newts range in size, the young ones being 2 feet tall and the largest are reported to be over 12 feet tall. The newt's main source of nutrition include Human sailors, divers, sharks, blue whales (which they hunt with spears and javlins), komodo dragons, and dinosaurs. They speak ancient Sanskrit and another language which is called the reptilian tongue by some linguists (it is characteristic of periodic hissing and triling of the tongue). The newts are a religious people, they worship their leader Palli - famous for his statement "no two newts can feed on the same body".
Their culture is a militaristic/tribal type, where honour is held in high esteem. Some also report that they have a caste system where some newts can take advantage of the other ones. Newts usually wear a bandana and the king wears a crown made of solid stone with a pebble in the middle of it. Apparently, they claim this pebble can destroy the universe claiming that it is a meteor. However, the pebble is probably nothing more than a beach stone. There are three species of Newts
[edit] Maldivian Newts
These are probably the most famous species of Newts - a tribal warlike species which roam the Indian ocean every year in search of breeding grounds. Their main headquarters is somwhere on the Maldivian Islands, although no one is quite sure where exactly. However, satellite photography from NASA and the French Space Agency confirm that their base is off the coast of Madagascar near the Maldives.
This species has been rarely seen - those that have usually never live to tell about it. Extremely rare photographs, however, have been taken of the Newt Base and of a Newt in a bamboo forest.These photos confirm what scientists have theorized since the days of Sinbad, this species is a nomadic species, rarely settling in one area for more than a few weeks. Legend has it that Marco Polo had to sacrifice half his crew to the newts in order to cross the Indian. Historians point to the lack of explorers in China in the 11th and 12th centuries as indicators that explorers new of the prescense of this species. Some maps even write "Here Be Dragons" in areas where it was thought that Newts lived.
The Newt diet is a carnivorous one, always killing animals both small and large and consuming them. Their most famous diet, as a rare record had it, was roasted Human on a spit, spiced up with Curry, salt, and pepper and sprinkled with human and cow blood. The newts have also been known to gang up on dinosaurs. Newts cannot live on plants, and so their diet is usually meat or fish. Occasionaly, they will feast on chicken eggs and rat venom.
The Maldivian newts are bipedal creatures, and the average newt has a bandana on all the time. The Newts have adopted a sort of caste system, but it usually does not discriminate against those of a lower caste.
[edit] Pacific Newts
The Pacific Newts are a species which were driven out by the CIA in the late 40s from their islands. The islands were subsequently used for nuclear nesting, and much of the homeland has now been completely destroyed. As a result, the newts have evolved gills and now live below the ocean surface, in caves and creavases. There, some claim they are plotting the destruction of the Human race.
[edit] The English Newts
Little is known about these elusive creatures. Only a rare photograph helps to understand these Newts.
[edit] The Orchids
The Orchids are a flora with distinct thoughts and feelings. They have the mental ability of a fully grown newt yet have the same photosynthetic capacity as Shannon the Scavenger. The Orchids are a carnivorous species, however, because they evolved the ability to grow a mouth, tongue, and appetite for mammals both small and large. The Orchids have their main base in South Africa, on the Table Mountain where explorers claim that the throne is located. Only few explorers have truly commuinicated with the Orchids because many others were either eaten or sacrificed to the "sun God Amun".
The Orchids are a communist culture, which believe in equality for all. They have had monarchies in the past, but many were thrown down by rebel orhids which now hold political power.
[edit] The cat-ion
Also called the felion, this mysterious creature has been said to roam the southern coast of Madagascar. The species, which was thought to be created in a lightning-storm a few years before the Ultimate War of the Humans (2012). Also called the Prionailurus electricas (greek for electric cat) this species has been said to emit not only copius amounts of electric energy, some estimates say that it is about 52,000 times the amount emitted by the electric eel. The species seems to show advanced intellectual thought, 1 book has been published by a well known felion called "The New Age of the Cats and Ions". In it, Felixander II proclaims that one day, the felions will rule the world with an iron, yet conducting, fist.
The main physical featurs of this species are webbed feet, 3 eyelids, a difunctional brain, and a yellow fur coat. Apparently, the felions claim that in order to perform a thought process, a quantum fluctuation must take place in the vacuum of one of their brains (the Dorsal area). After, the fluctuation then travels to the frontal lobe (the second brain), where the fluctuation is converted into hexadecimal numbers. The hexadecimal is then converted to binary and that is, in turn, converted to a strange number system called monary, where the only number used is 0.
Using a series of complex enzymes, the 0s are then transformed to complex molecules similar to the human neuron. According to Mina, this theory "holds water". The felions are a socialist species, where all political power is distributed evenly amongst the population. The great political scientist Catl Marx proclaims that this is the ideal of a society and that all species will eventually transform to this system. The leader of the cats, Catlin leninyx who, although holds no true power, is merely an ambassador from the felions to the Newts.
The newts and felions hold a steady peace and have a strict border. The truce proclaims that the southern area of madagascar is cat property while the north is for the newts.
[edit] How it all came to be
[edit] NaA
The mid 90s were tumultuous years. It was the time when the world learned of the terrible atrocities that were committed overseas at the hands of capitalists. The 90s were also a time of vast child labour usage by big-name brands like Nike and Adidas. At one point, there was a secret merging of the 2 companies and together, they worked on a certain type of shoe, the prototype NaA (Nike and Adidas) which was created in the mid 90s. One shoe, however, was lost in the Indonesian Islands while the other made its way to the United States where it endured a series of tortures like none ever experienced in the history of shoe making. Among other things, the shoe was slammed, shot, ripped, bit, thrown, hammered, and finally incinerate slowly in a fire-chamber. The other shoe, whose name is NaA, fell off the docking station where it was to board and was left neck deep in the mud of the indonesian islands. Note also that during this time, it was the monsoon season. The shoe, therefore, had it quite hard.
Later the shoe was found by a young lad, Alberto, and given to the head of the child-labour factory, Julio. Julio found this shoe a rarity and decided to store it in a safe, hoping one day to make a fortune selling it. A Year later, the child-labour red phone rang and on the other end was Donovan Bailey. He asked Julio if he had a special shoe, a shoe that no other athlete had ever heard of. Julio then replied that he had 1 shoe called NaA. Although an incomplete pair, Bailey got excited at the prospect of advertising for 2 big companies at the olympics. The very next day he boarded the first flight to Indonesia and visited the factory. There, he asked Julio for the price and Julio, being quite unknowledgable of how rich the man, asked for the equivalent of 1$ AMR. Bailey paid the man and took the shoe back to America. He spent the next months practising with the shoe and hired people to make an exact replica of the shoe. NaA was put under intense pressure during the practise sessions, an abuse to say the least.
The day of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics 100m dash, however, was not a good day for NaA. He was abandonned 1 hour before race and another pair of shoes, a newer better looking pair, was used. NaA was deeply distressed by this action and swore to destory Capitalism. To this day he still believes that capitalism was responsible for him NOT getting the fame he deserved after months of hard labour. NaA eventually sailed to North America where he began recruiting for his anti-capitalist movement. Many shoes, especially the younger generation, found this appealing and NaA named the group RSONA: Renegade Shoes of North America. NaA started south in Florida and criss-crossed the entire United States earning much support from the shoe community. Eventually the group grew to include over 1,500,000 shoes. Currently, the numbers are disputed, some estimates are as low as 30,000,000 while others say its more than 440,000,000 shoes. NaA continued his upward trek into Canada until he arrived at Ellsemere Island, where he established the RSONA base and later made a treaty with the Inner Earth people.
[edit] S. The Sandal
The origins of Sandy the sandal are unknown, but it is thought that she grew up on Java Island in the Indian Ocean. She belonged to a poor beggar boy, Berto. Berto used this sandal to walk around in the muddy and sometimes very rain terrain of Java. Berto himself was an orphan who, ironically, was a shoe-shine boy. One day in the mid 90s an actress by the name of Jolie visited Java Island in search of a poor boy to adopt (and thereby improve her reputation). While walking on a sidewalk in a small town in Java, she found the shoe-shine boy Berto asking her if he could shine her shoes. That very same day adoption papers where filed and the next day, Berto was whisked away to Hollywood to live with the actress. Accompanying the boy was Sandy the Sandal.
In California, Jolie took care of the boy and took the sandal, restored it, and gave it a high heel. She made an identical copy and began wearing High-heel sandals. One day in the late 90s however, while Jolie was not in the house, Sandy walked out of the solid gold cupboard she was kept in and went to the Television. There, she turned it on and began watching a story of a poor boy in South America who had nothing to wear. She continued to watch as more stories were put on the air about poor children. Sandy then began reminiscing over her childhood and over how she used to live. She then thought of the rich capitalists of North America and how they lived.
This compelled Sandy to escape hollywood and begin a Political anti-capitalism movement. This idea quickly spread through the masses as she trekked her way southward into Mexico, experiencing first hand the brutality that Capitalism can inflict on the poor and weak. She began living poor yet at the same time gathering support from the Sandals who had not committed suicide. SSSOSA as it is now called has its numbers well into the 100s of millions of dedicated supporters and followers. Sandy continued southward until she reached the Amazon Basin where she established her main base for the anti-capitalist movement.
more later...
[edit] Recent News and Developments
A few weeks ago, Sandy the sandal was assassinated while making a public appearance in the Amazon basin to her fellow Renegade Sandals. The purported assassin is VBES, an acronym for Very Bad Eating Satan. This bed claims to me a mercenary, however he also claims to be loyal to his species, the Beds. The assassin apparently killed his victim by sneaking up from behind and falling on Sandy who was instantly flattened to a depth of 1 micrometer. The assassin then fled the scene by getting into an escape vehicle and flying away - some claim seeing a hover craft while others claim it was a greyhound bus.
Little is known of VBES and his true origins. However, the most accepted theory is the B-E-T theory: Beginning Evils Thrive Theory. This assassin can be contrasted with another assassin, Newtassin.
After the assassination, NaA is to have reportedly gone into his secret chambers and wept for the sandimanity. He then left his quarters and contacted Newtassin asking him to assassinate VBES. Currently, the status of these 2 assassins is unknown. Meanwhile back in the amazon basin, a mass suicide was conducted within a one mile radius of the murder. All sandals simultaneously unstrapped themselves and huge blasts were heard as far away as Bogota Columbia by the Magic Mushrooms. Later, one sandal took the remains and exhumed them, then took the ashes and blew them into the wind.
[edit] Background Story (another account)
The issue and mechanisms of how the shoes, sandals, beds and other such species gained consciousness is a quite unknown one and the details we will not concern ourselves with... yet amongst these, a few figures stood out, key figures which would influence greatly the times to come.... The life and times of NaA the great shoe, chief-in-staff and warlord of the RSONA, and his former wife Sandy the sandal is one that greatly impacted millions.... This is their story.
[edit] Cursed Soles
It was a stormy day in the South Pacific. The Northeast monsoon came down violently. On one of the Indonesian islands, a crate was powerfully hurled on shore, from a cargo ship destined towards the United States, and opened. A shoe crashed into the mud. It was NaA. By chance, a poor boy happened to stumble across the beach and saw this brand new shoe. He saw that it belonged to no one and put it on.
Little did people know, but the great corporate giants Nike and Adidas had a very brief merger a long time ago sometime in the 70's, an ephemeral one. This was a total failure, a great flop, and never appeared on the stock market and it forgotten in the eyes of the public. But a strange shoe was created, a hybrid. This product never made it to the market and the plan was subsequently scrapped. They tested this hybrid and found that it could not handle the durabilities of the real world. And that is how the great leader NaA, of the RSONA was born...... NaA saw his brother being subjected to some of the tortures of the durability test. He witnessed his brother being stretched, ripped, pounded and finally exhausted and discarded. From this moment on, NaA was already quite cynical...
NaA woke up in a small village. He now belonged to the young Indonesian boy.
The phone rang.
It was Donovan Bailey on the phone... "Hey Alberto.... I need a pair of shoes for the upcoming Olympics" "What brand do you want. Nike? Adidas?" "Well, I like both, but hey... do you have any chance, something that resembles both Nike and Adidas?" "Oh what luck?. There was just one pair I happened to find from some Indonesian boy. He gave me only about ten thousand rupiahs for it. Little over a buck." "Oh thanks...."
From then on, Donovan Bailey trained with NaA, the shoe. He travelled a lot, jogging around, hiking up mountains and overall living a very strenouous lifestyle. NaA lived a very sad, depressed life and saw his brother worn out before him. Then came the Olympics in 1996 in Atlanta. NaA was somewhat happy, as he realized that if his owner won, he would share his fame and fortune at the podium. But surprisingly, Bailey saw that NaA was in a dilapidated state, no longer fit for use. He tossed NaA aside and wore a new pair. NaA was shocked. Some other shoe got the glory and NaA was just left there, feeling furious, and deeply betrayed. He then wandered around and thought very deeply. He realized that his sufferings was due to the capitalistic nature of society. You are only good for a while, then when you are useless, you have no economic value and you are discarded. Now a raging, depressed and frustrated wreck of raw emotion, NaA wrote these rambling thoughts into a book, a little yellow book. This book; it had a strange title -- Alizarin Yellow was what he named it. In a sense, Alizarin Yellow was a manifesto and a personal book. In it, he denounced materialism, wrote about his trials and tribulations and what he referred to as "the Capitalist curtain" was responsible. NaA started becoming an extremist.
NaA, then began to wander, from Atlanta to other cities. He met many other worn out shoes and could relate to their stories. He recruited them for his cause and tried to get him to help to institute his ideal of a Shoeocracy. This is how the organization RSONA- the Renegade Shoes of North America began, although of course, this organization has not been successful at all at reaching its goal.
Now, while NaA was busy wandering around N. America seeking shoes to recruit for his cause... Another figure was doing quite the same, but down south in S. America. It was Sandy the sandal... They just happened to bump paths with each other serendipitously while rounding the West coast of Africa.
But first, here was Sandy's story.
Sandy the sandal came from the same geographical area as NaA, she was born on Java, born of low-quality sandals. Apart from that though, NaA and Sandy seemed to have had very contrasting early lives before they met. Sandy was also found and worn by an Indonesian, nephew of Alberto, Berto, who was also a poor village boy. Berto was later adopted by a famous Hollywood actress, Jolie. Jolie saw Berto while visiting Java and saw that he only had that pair of sandals, so she gave him a pair of Nikes. Later, she adopted him and brought him to America. Jolie however, liked the sandals and kept them for herself. In contrast, to NaA's life with Donovan Bailey, Sandy lived a relatively tempered life in the closet. Being the sandal of a celebrity, she lived a pampered life and never had to endure the ordeals NaA went through as a marathon runner's shoe. After being spoilt however, one day Sandy happened to walk out of the closet when her owner was not there and watch TV. She flipped the remote and the first thing that caught her eye was the images in the news.... she saw images of poor people suffering due to the gap between rich and poor. She also saw political corruption, war and scandal. Shocked and appalled by this, she begun to come to the same revelations NaA had, about society. Sandy also happened to see the Olympics while flipping the channels; something caught her eye. Donovan Bailey just happened to be putting on his new pair of shoes before the race. Sandy saw a brief shot, of NaA, worn-down and abandonned in the corner and immediately Sandy's antipathy towards capitalism grew even stronger.
